Mayan apocalypse: 100 places to see before the end of the world - part three

Italy’s richest and most celebrated art gallery is housed in what was
originally built as the Medici Whitehall – the governing dynasty’s
administrative centre. It’s difficult to pick out the cherries from an
already cherry-picked selection (there’s lots more in the vaults), but they
would have to include Gentile da Fabriano’s Adoration of the Magi,
Botticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus, Piero della Francesca’s twin
portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, and Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni.
Booking, however, is virtually essential